Tis the Season to Decorate

We always try to decorate our tree on Thanksgiving or the day after.  We want to it up as long as possible.  It just adds a certain warmth to our home.  Since we were in the decorating spirit, we did cookies as well.  You can never decorate enough Christmas cookies :)

The first thing we had to do was pry the kids out of the Christmas Tree Box.  Turns out it's true what "they" say about kids and boxes!

 Then Landry dressed herself up!  She chose a leotard and tutu and adorned the neckline with Sparkly Star Barrettes.  I think they add a nice touch ;)

Eli is pouting in this picture because he wants his turn

 I love her intense focus!  Tongue out and all

 Me and my little loves

 We tend to always get a picture of Eli screaming while we are baking.  Poor little guy can't understand why he doesn't get to dump the whole jar of flour. LOL

 Sneaky, Sneaky

 Now it's tree time!

 "Hmm, what to do with all these balls?"  So glad I have switched to shatterproof balls!

Landry thought that all the matching ornaments should hang together as a group.

 I love this one of them together :)

 And Landry needed a little help from Daddy to put the ornaments just where she wanted them

After the trees and cookies, Eli decorated himself a bit.....

What fun memories!!!!

Anyone miss Thanksgiving?

Just in case you are, I'm taking you back.  

We spent our Thanksgiving at my parents' house.  For the last few years, family had come to us, so it was nice to shake things up a bit.  

The first thing we did when we got there was picked a pumpkin from PawPaw's pumpkin patch.  The pumpkins were just gorgeous and it was so much fun going to a real pumpkin patch right in GiGi and PawPaw's yard!

Of course, no trip with Landry would be complete without a little dress-up.  This was her costume of choice

 And for some reason, it prompted her to say the pledge over and over.

 We got to visit MaMa...

 And to top the trip off,  we drank a little eggnog (without the alcohol, of course)...

And trimmed the tree!!

Sing, O Sing!!

Gosh, I've been a bad blogger lately, and it's driving me crazy.  Seems I can't catch up with the craziness life brings.  No worries!  Next week, I plan on being a blogging fool.  Seriously!

However, today I'm getting a head start (even though it is out of order).  Landry had her very first Christmas Program today at school.  She sang so beautifully!!  No screaming for this girl, she can carry a really nice tune :)  Since Daddy is out of town and had to miss it, I wanted to post the video right away.

Here is Landry doing a solo at our house a couple mornings ago